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A History of Celibacy

by Elizabeth Abbott (Goodreads Author)

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"This is probably one of the most fascinating books that I have ever read in so many different ways. The historical connection between chastity and sports is particularly interesting since it is still practiced today in certain sports according to the author." — Apr 04, 2016 11:34AM

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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

by Rebecca Traister

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Discourses on Livy

by Niccolò Machiavelli

bookshelves: currently-reading, political-philosophy, political-science, machiavellianism

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James’s Quotes

“Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.”
― Julian Assange

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“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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“Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, Mandragola

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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson

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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

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